As Iris Chase Griffen, the sole surviving descendant of a once distinguished Toronto family, recalls the events of her life and the pivotal death of her sister Laura in 1945, we simultaneously read Laura´s posthumously published novel, "The Blind Assassin". In that novel within a novel - the tale of two lovers on the lam - there is yet another narrative - a science fiction fantasy, in which a blind assassin and a mute sacrificial virgin share a journey of their own.